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@@ -681,6 +681,60 @@ changes in sbcl-0.6.11 relative to sbcl-0.6.10:
 * LOAD-FOREIGN (and LOAD-1-FOREIGN) now support logical pathnames,
   as per Daniel Barlow's suggestion and Martin Atzmueller's patch
 
 * LOAD-FOREIGN (and LOAD-1-FOREIGN) now support logical pathnames,
   as per Daniel Barlow's suggestion and Martin Atzmueller's patch
 

+changes in sbcl-0.6.12 relative to sbcl-0.6.11:
+* incompatible change: The old SB-EXT:OPTIMIZE-INTERFACE declaration
+  is no longer recognized. I apologize for this, because it was
+  listed in SB-EXT as a supported extension, but I found that
+  its existing behavior was poorly specified, as well as incorrectly
+  specified, and it looked like too much of a mess to straighten it
+  out. I have enough on my hands trying to get ANSI stuff to work..
+* many patches ported from CMU CL by Martin Atzmueller, with 
+  half a dozen bug fixes in pretty-printing and the debugger, and
+  half a dozen others elsewhere
+* fixed bug 13: Floating point infinities are now supported again.
+  They might still be a little bit flaky, but thanks to bug reports
+  from Nathan Froyd and CMU CL patches from Raymond Toy they're not
+  as flaky as they were.
+* The --noprogrammer command line option is now supported. (Its
+  behavior is slightly different in detail from what the old man
+  page claimed it would do, but it's still appropriate under the
+  same circumstances that the man page talks about.)
+* The :SB-PROPAGATE-FLOAT-TYPE and :SB-PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE features
+  are now supported, and enabled by default. Thus, the compiler can
+  handle many floating point and complex operations much less
+  inefficiently. (Thus e.g. you can implement a complex FFT
+  without consing!)
+* The compiler now detects type mismatches between DECLAIM FTYPE 
+  and DEFUN better, and implements CHECK-TYPE more correctly, and
+  SBCL builds under CMU CL again despite its non-ANSI EVAL-WHEN,
+  thanks to patches from Martin Atzmueller.
+* various fixes to make the cross-compiler more portable to
+  ANSI-conforming-but-different cross-compilation hosts (notably
+  Lispworks for Windows, following bug reports from Arthur Lemmens)
+* A bug in READ-SEQUENCE for CONCATENATED-STREAM, and a gross
+  ANSI noncompliance in DEFMACRO &KEY argument parsing, have been
+  fixed thanks to Pierre Mai's CMU CL patches.
+* fixes to keep the system from overflowing internal counters when
+  it tries to use i/o buffers larger than 16M bytes
+* fixed bug 45a: Various internal functions required to support
+  complex special functions have been merged from CMU CL sources.
+  (When I was first setting up SBCL, I misunderstood a compile-time
+  conditional #-OLD-SPECFUN, and so accidentally deleted them.)
+* improved support for type intersection and union, fixing bug 12
+  (e.g., now (SUBTYPEP 'KEYWORD 'SYMBOL)=>T,T) and some other
+  more obscure bugs as well
+* some steps toward byte-compiling non-performance-critical
+  parts of the system, courtesy of patches from Martin Atzmueller
+* Christophe Rhodes has made some debian packages of sbcl at
+  <http://www-jcsu.jesus.cam.ac.uk/ftp/pub/debian/lisp>.
+  From his sbcl-devel e-mail of 2001-04-08 they're not completely
+  stable, but are nonetheless usable. When he's ready, I'd be happy
+  to add them to the SourceForge "File Releases" section. (And if
+  anyone wants to do RPMs or *BSD packages, they'd be welcome too.)
+* new fasl file format version number (because of changes in 
+  internal representation of (OR ..) types to accommodate the new
+  support for (AND ..) types, among other things)
+

 planned incompatible changes in 0.7.x:
 * The debugger prompt sequence now goes "5]", "5[2]", "5[3]", etc.
   as you get deeper into recursive calls to the debugger command loop,
 planned incompatible changes in 0.7.x:
 * The debugger prompt sequence now goes "5]", "5[2]", "5[3]", etc.
   as you get deeper into recursive calls to the debugger command loop,

@@ -692,3 +746,14 @@ planned incompatible changes in 0.7.x:
   e.g. UNPROFILE will interact with TRACE and UNTRACE. (This shouldn't
   matter, though, unless you are using profiling. If you never 
   profile anything, TRACE should continue to behave as before.)
   e.g. UNPROFILE will interact with TRACE and UNTRACE. (This shouldn't
   matter, though, unless you are using profiling. If you never 
   profile anything, TRACE should continue to behave as before.)

+* The fasl file extension may change, perhaps to ".fasl".
+* The default output representation for unprintable ASCII characters 
+  which, unlike e.g. #\Newline, don't have names defined in the 
+  ANSI Common Lisp standard, may change to their ASCII symbolic
+  names: #\Nul, #\Soh, #\Stx, etc.
+* INTERNAL-TIME-UNITS-PER-SECOND might increase, e.g. to 1000.
+* MAYBE-INLINE will probably go away at some point, maybe 0.7.x,
+  maybe later, in favor of the ANSI-recommended idiom for making
+  a function optionally inline.
+* FASL file extensions change to ".fasl", instead of the various
+  CPU-dependent values (".x86f" etc.) inherited from CMU CL.